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The idea of a National biometric ID card is stunning in itself, and the name may be even more surprising. The Believe System,an acronym for Biometric Enrollment, Locally stored Information and Electronic Verification of Employment, and it’s got many civil liberties groups concerned.

A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday.

Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years, according to a draft of the measure.

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It would require all workers across the nation to carry a card with a digital encryption key that would have to match work authorization databases.